Abstract: Handheld forceps having plural pincers for grasping and holding multiple objects, such as Peanut or Cotton Kittner sponges, at the same time are disclosed. The handheld forceps include opposing arms having proximal and distal ends. A hinge connects the opposing arms together between the proximal and distal ends. The opposing arms articulate relative to each other about the hinge. A handle portion at the proximal ends of the opposing arms has an open and closed position for articulating the distal ends open and closed. Distal ends are configured with plural pincers whereby jaws are formed between the plural pincers for grasping and holding multiple objects at the same time.

Abstract: A clamp includes a first arm, a first clamp member disposed at an end of the first arm, a link arm coupled to the first arm and movable relative to the first arm between a first position and a second position, and a second clamp member coupled to the link arm for movement therewith between the first position and the second position. The clamp also includes a second arm movable relative to the first arm and a third clamp member coupled to the second arm. The second and third clamp members are engageable with a workpiece to clamp the workpiece between the second and third clamp members when the link arm is in the first position. The first and third clamp members are engageable with the workpiece to clamp the workpiece between the first and third clamp members when the link arm is in the second position.

Abstract: A pin cutter that includes a housing having at a proximal end thereof a grip, an actuator handle supported at the housing, a pair of elongated blades that define at a distal end thereof a set of cutting jaws, a ramp mechanism secured with the actuator handle for operating proximal ends of the blade member, a hollow shaft extending through the housing, the ramp mechanism supported about the hollow shaft, and a biasing spring disposed about the hollow shaft.

Abstract: An open end wrench head including first and second jaws that are adapted to engage a workpiece located in a hard-to-reach area. The jaws can include a chamfered portion on the end of the jaws that allows the wrench to be presented at an angle to the workpiece and still maximize the engagement area between the wrench and the workpiece.

Abstract: A power hand tool can include a generally longitudinal housing having a first end and a second end. An indicator can be disposed on the housing. A first and a second jaw member can be arranged at the first end wherein one of the first and second jaw members can rotate relative to the other jaw member. A motor assembly can be disposed in the housing and include an output member arranged at the second end. A sensor can be arranged at the second end and configured to sense an electrical field in proximity thereof. The sensor can generate a signal in response to a sensed electrical field. A controller can receive the sensor signal from the sensor assembly and control operation of the indicator in response thereto.

Abstract: A pair of preferably substantially buoyant-in-water hand pliers comprising a pair of non-metallic lever members each having a handle portion and a jaw portion and formed of material preferably having a density greater than water. The lever members are pivotally connected together at common central portions between the jaw and handle portions. Each handle portion preferably has one or more outwardly opening cavities formed into a side surface of the handle portions. An elongated tubular sheath preferably formed of material buoyant in water covers and sealingly encloses the cavities whereby the effective density of the pliers is less than that of water. An effective, durable, non-corrosive wire cutting arrangement is also provided, the components uniquely configured and supported in the non-metallic jaw portions.

Abstract: A cutting tool having first and second lever arms with a cutting end and a handle end. A first insert and a second insert are connected to the cutting ends of each of the lever arms. The inserts are removable from the cutting ends of the lever arms, and each of the inserts include multiple cutting edges. When the inserts are connected to the cutting ends of the lever arms and the user pulls the handle ends towards each other, the cutting ends also move toward each other. As the cutting ends move toward each other, the inserts act cooperatively to sever materials located therebetween. When one of the cutting edges of an insert becomes dulled or damaged, the user removes the insert from the cutting end of the lever arm and repositions the insert on the cutting end such that a different cutting edge is revealed for severing materials.

Abstract: A field dressing tool of the type for field dressing small game, is provided. The field dressing tool including: a pair of handles each having a first and second end, each handle forming a trough; a cutting blade connected to a first end of each of said handles, the cutting blades functionally interconnected by a pivot joint; a knife member having a first edge tapering to a point and a notch formed proximate the point on an edge opposite the first edge, the knife member pivotally connected to the second end of one of the handles and pivotable from a position disposed within a trough to a position extending from a handle; and a rake member pivotally connected to the second end of one of the handles, the rake being pivotable from a position disposed within a trough to a position extending from a handle.

Abstract: A composite pliers has crossed levers, each including a non-metallic body with an exposed metal cutter blade. The pliers includes strengthening and/or retaining structure around a pivot joint which does not extend into handle portions of the levers. This structure strengthens the pivot joint and can help confine the pliers parts in the event of failure. In one embodiment, each lever has a pivot joint strengthening structure insert molded therein, the structure extending into a jaw portion of each lever and protruding from the non-metallic body to form a workpiece engagement surface, such as a cutting blade. In one form, the jaws have more than one row of teeth with adjacent rows offset from each other. When the pliers is assembled from two identical lever members, each row of teeth on one lever will face the offset row of teeth on the other lever so that the peaks of the teeth on one lever fall within the grooves between the teeth on the opposing row.

Abstract: A pair of shears comprises two pivotally-fastened handles, two blades pivoted to the handles, and a connection device pivoted with the two blades. The two handles are provided with a cutting edge. As the two handles are moved toward each other, the cutting edges and the blades are capable of bringing about independently a scissors action to execute the cutting of an object held therebetween.

Abstract: A pliers-knife combination tool including pivotally connected elongated members. A working region of the tool includes opposed gripping jaws on interior faces of the elongated members and at least one knife edge on an exterior edge of one of the elongated members. Engaging the opposed gripping jaws with each other allow use of the tool as a knife. A method of fabricating the tool includes maximizing the size of the tool for a given size forming machine. Each member is formed separately from the other member to permit sizes as large as possible for the forming dies and machines used. The members are pivotally connected after forming to produce a larger size tool than if both the first and second members were simultaneously formed in a given size forming machine.

Abstract: A fishing pliers including a pair of gripping jaws having replaceable gripping inserts with progressively finer knurled gripping surfaces, so that the gripping jaws can be used on both small and large objects and for many different tasks. The fishing pliers also include a pair of cutting jaws having replaceable cutting blades with cutting edges. The cutting edges are positioned so that their common cutting line is offset from the pivot axis of the fishing pliers so that the cutting jaws produce both a slicing cutting motion and a compressive cutting motion, making for easier cutting and reducing wear on the cutting blades.

Abstract: A pair of pliers for gripping, twisting, and cutting wires having undulating wire gripping surfaces, a wire cutting cavity, and a resilient wire gripping material. The undulating wire gripping surfaces have high and low portions that unequally traverse the gripping surfaces and extend unequally beyond the centerline of the pliers. Such a configuration provides an equally distributed gripping force for an entire range of wires without causing any nicks and scrapes on the wire. The cutting cavity has a plurality of surfaces that form tiger tooth-like members. The geometry formed by the cavity's surfaces and tooth-like members provides a large surface area for the resilient gripping material to adhere to.

Abstract: A tile cutting pliers including two horizontal cutting plates on two pivoted blades at one end and acted against each other to trim tiles, a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame respectively raised from either cutting plate, a circular cutter fastened to the first mounting frame at an outer side for cutting a scratch on tiles, and a jaw plate turned about a pivot on the second mounting frame, the jaw plate having a recessed portion on a front chucking face thereof transversely disposed in the middle, and wherein the jaw plate is turned inwards and moved to act against the first upright mounting frame to clamp a tile being placed therebetween or turned outwards from the first mounting frame for permitting the cutting plates to be acted against each other to cut a tile.

Abstract: An improved hand tool for cutting flex-duct material comprising a plier-type wire cutter having retaining member mounted on the outside of the jaws of the wire cutter for releasably retaining a disposable razor-type blade.

Abstract: A multi-purpose fishing tool to aid in the cutting of line and the maintenance of fish hooks and flies is disclosed. The fishing tool comprises two normally spaced-apart hand grips that are attached to a common flexure assembly. A knife blade is mounted to one of the hand grips and is oriented and directed to abut an anvil surface on the other hand grip. One of the hand grips contains a storage compartment that is normally enclosed by an outer cover of the hand grip. The second hand grip contains a file that can be extended through an opening in the butt end of the hand grip for the actuation of a lever normally seated in a slot in the base of the hand grip. A pin for cleaning the eyelet of flies and hooks is mounted to the frame of the tool.

Abstract: A medical pill breaker comprising two complementary elongated members pivoted together intermediately of the opposite ends thereof, one end of the members being formed into at least a partial loop to comprise handles and opposite portions of the opposite ends of the members being concave and V-shaped in cross-section and comprising opposed members for breaking relatively lsrge pills, the opposite ends of the elongated members terminating in relatively shorter portions respectively V-shaped in cross-section and comprising breaking members for relatively smaller pills, and abutting portions on said elongated members comprising stop members to limit the closing of the V-shaped breaking members toward each other.

Abstract: A multipurpose hand tool for tying certain types of knots in fishing line includes an elongate finger which is tapered from a thick base toward a very small tip. The elongate finger has a rounded external shape, and a groove of decreasing depth extends along it from the base toward its tip, permitting an end of a line to be passed within turns of line wrapped around the elongate finger. The elongate finger includes two mating halves, each mounted on one of a pair of pivotably interconnected handles. Cavities are provided in the mating opposed faces of the mating halves of the elongate finger to hold the eye portion of a fishhook in order to tighten it by moving the two halves of the elongate finger toward one another. A line cutter included in the tool comprises a pair of opposed sharp edges located on the extreme side portion of each of the handles, permitting a line to be clipped close to a knot.

Abstract: Horse hoof pick comprising an arm having front and rear end portions and another arm having pivot connection to the first arm intermediate its end portions, the first arm defining at its front end portion a hoof picking head comprising a terminally pointed and rearwardly tapered hook insertable between the frog and horn portions of the horse's hoof, the other arm being angularly adjustable relative to the rear end portion of the first arm to define a handgripping means for the pick variable between a narrow arm spread for prying picking action against accumulated matter, and a wide arm spread for facilitated torque twisting picking action against the matter.

Abstract: A fisherman's pliers combines in a single tool the gripping, holding, compressing and flattening features of a needlenose or similar pliers with a hole punch and with both straight edge and half-moon metal cutters, whereby hollow and solid so-called "pencil lead" sinker material can be prepared efficiently while fishing for attachment as a sinker to a fishing line.

Abstract: A multipurpose tool which is in the form of a basic plier but provides the user with a multiplicity of functions. The multipurpose tool includes rotationally displaceable head and handle portions formed in generally one piece construction with each pair of handle and head portions rotatably mounted each to the other in a standard form of a plier. Each of the head portions includes plier stripping elements for removing insulation from wire inserted within one of a plurality of recesses. Teeth members are provided for gripping elements having a longitudinal groove between an associated pair of head portions of the multipurpose tool. Additionally, wire cutting elements are provided on the head portions in order that wire or flexible elements may be cut or otherwise sheared when the multipurpose tool is rotatably displaced to a closed position.

Abstract: A low-cost crimping tool is provided for crimping non-metallic tubing such as PEX tubing connections. The tool includes two primary pieces which fit together forming an integral pivot without being pinned together about which the tool may be closed with pliers to form a secure tubing connection.